Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 790: Players and Waste Disposal

Chapter 790: Chapter 790: Players and Waste Disposal

Xu Huo tore his sleeve and found that his entire cheating device had swollen with blue-black veins, his skin had also become dry like old tree bark. However, the good news was that although the left side of his body had stiffened, his left leg was just a bit numb, and he could still walk.

The gallery was about to disappear, and the sounds around him were getting closer. He opened the "Fifty-Fifty Open Air Window System" and jumped in.

Just like Jiang Jiang before, the gallery vanished into what seemed like a puff of smoke, and after discovering the bodyguard’s corpse next to her, players swarmed around the person standing amidst the ghost house ruins, "What happened? Where’s the enemy?"

Some were searching for any possible players, others arranged for Jiang Jiang to leave. After getting into the car, Jiang Jiang leaned against the window looking at the ruins on the ground, exhaled a breath, and muttered, "Unwilling to leave...".

Xu Huo didn’t know how long his condition would last. Returning to Zone 011 was one option, and of course, staying in Zone 009 was also possible, as there were risks on both sides, but he had no plans to leave.

Jiang Jiang obviously knew something about the situation. Even if the one who trained her wasn’t the doctor from The Seventeenth Hospital but the real Shang Shuming, there was a connection between them and that doctor, and he couldn’t afford to miss this lead.

"Bang!" The air window burst open in an old residential building, tossing him from a height as usual. Xu Huo grabbed onto the piano wire to slow his descent, but when he landed, his left foot stumbled, and after losing his balance, he crashed into a nearby trash can. This scared a little girl rummaging through the garbage to scurry away with her head in her hands, crying out as she squatted, "Don’t hit me, don’t hit me, I won’t dare do it again!"

Xu Huo glanced to the side, where several homeless men were eyeing the area. They seemed interested in the pile of garbage as well but didn’t approach because he was there.

This was a small mound of trash, mixed with boxes of upscale snacks that such slum dwellers clearly couldn’t afford, indicating it had been brought over from elsewhere.

Xu Huo took out his phone to check his location. Fortunately, the air window hadn’t sent him out of the country; it had just dumped him in a small city on the border.

He got used to his half-numb body, his right hand holding onto the piano wire as he stood up. A leg that couldn’t walk was one thing, but a body that couldn’t coordinate or exert force on one side made it very difficult to walk steadily. After struggling to take a couple of steps, he propped a skateboard on the ground.

Now able to move, he walked forward along the uneven road.

The homeless men, seeing him leave, immediately swarmed the trash heap. The little girl managed to snatch up only two plastic bags with remnants of snacks before getting punched. But even after being hit, she still fought to steal some messy stuff from one of the men and ran off.

The stench of unwashed sweat and rotting food swiftly wafted past him. Xu Huo watched the little girl running away before turning to glance at two homeless men who were following him.

The two men shrank back in fear, spitting on the ground before turning to sift through the trash pile again.

Xu Huo walked slowly forward, quickly realizing that this place was more than just poor and backwards. Apart from the heaps of dumped garbage, the number of all sorts belonging to the "dregs of society" was noticeably high. Anyone walking on the street had to endure the scrutiny of at least a dozen onlookers. During the day, people hugged the walls as they walked, except for the wandering homeless children.

He found a place to stop and rest, also taking the opportunity to check information about the city.

This had once been a tourist city, small but with beautiful scenery. However, after the outbreak of the game event, it had suffered a massacre; almost all the inhabitants had died, and the city had been abandoned for years, until a safe zone was established by a nearby larger city the year before last.

There were quite a few safe zones in Zone 009, mostly situated in populous and prosperous areas, and it was already quite fortunate if one or two remote cities were designated as safe zones. Those who couldn’t be accommodated in safe zones would be forcibly expelled.

Speaking of expulsion, it wasn’t about forcibly confining them to a certain area and prohibiting them from approaching; the nearby cities hadn’t been abandoned, just that there wasn’t enough strength to protect them. They were left in a survival-of-the-fittest situation. If they were lucky and didn’t suffer player attacks or the emergence of dungeon sites, things remained stable; if not, they just had to accept their bad luck.

But every city was strict about identity verification, which led to those originally without household registration, or those who were ostracized, being forced from medium cities to smaller ones, layer by layer. This border town was basically at the bottom, a place for those with nowhere else to go.

One could imagine the environment.

"After the game started, these people didn’t even have time to deal with the garbage..." Xu Huo looked up at the grey sky, it was going to rain.

"Are you a player?" The little girl who had run off came back, standing a few meters from him, holding a broken umbrella, "It’s going to rain, aren’t you afraid of getting wet? Do you need an umbrella?"

"I have an umbrella," Xu Huo said.

The little girl glanced at his left leg, her voice trembling slightly, "Do you also have nowhere to go? Want to come to my place? I can carry you, cook for you, do you have money?"

"Can your house accommodate an adult?" Xu Huo smiled, "You’d better hurry along."

After he spoke, he continued down the street looking for a place to stay, but the little girl didn’t give up and kept following him from a distance.

Because he didn’t drive her away, after a while, a few more children joined, with the braver ones approaching and saying, "Uncle, are you looking for a place to stay? I know where you can find one, give me ten bucks and I’ll show you!"

The little girl also squeezed over and said, "Uncle, I can dress you and put shoes on you, give you a bath, I don’t want money, just give me something to eat!"

The children quarreled among themselves, but Xu Huo had already stopped in front of a rundown hostel, where the enthusiastic owner came out with an old wheelchair, inviting him in and waving the children away.

There were dried bloodstains on the wheelchair. Xu Huo asked after sitting down, "Do players often come here?"

"Certainly, those badly injured, waiting to die, with nowhere to go, they all come here. There were two or three like you who fell from the sky, but they weren’t lucky, landed and ended up crippled," the owner said, sizing him up with a smile, "You look alright!"

"A hundred White Notes a night, that’s a bargain. How many nights would you like to start with?"

Xu Huo placed a hundred White Notes on the table, "I’ll pay day by day, who knows when I might enter the game."

"Yes, yes." The owner added, "But we don’t provide meals, you’ll have to go out for that. It’s better not to order takeout, you know how things are these days, who dares eat without seeing the food being cooked."

"Especially don’t let those little brats out there run errands for you, they’ll steal bites, and who knows, they might even pee in it."

"Your legs aren’t convenient, do you want to stay on the first floor?"

"I’ll go to the second floor," Xu Huo stood up, "Please move the wheelchair up there."